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Page 10 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1979 Cougars, conference wait on bowls United Press International HOUSTON — You can take the man out of the bowl game, but appa rently you cannot take the bowl game out of the man. Sonny Yates is the University of Houston’s rookie associate athletic director, but the excitement he ex perienced as Sun Bowl executive di rector is still in his Cougar-red blood — especially this week. “We want to stay on top of the situation, know what our options are,’ he said as he waved his arm at an office wall dotted with the names of 15 bowls. Team names that he speculated might go to those bowls were taped under about half the bowls on the wall. “There are changes every five mi nutes,” he said. Saturday is the first day the bowl committee can extend invitations to teams, so this week Yates is cheer leading for the highly-ranked Cougars, 8-1, instead of the Sun Bowl. He said it was untrue that bowl committees doubt Houston’s ability to have a large following of alumni and students. “We want to let it be known that wherever Houston goes that we want our allotment of seats. We will sell everything we are given,” Yates said. He said when the Cougars went to the 1977 and 1979 Cotton Bowls, the Houston athletic department sold their allotments of one-sixth of the available tickets plus about 2,000 more in 1977 and 1,500 more in 1979. That bowl was in Dallas, 230 miles north of Houston. And the Cougars have not been out of state to a bowl since 1962. Houston’s open date Saturday is a disadvantage as far as attracting in vitations, Yates said. Houston finishes its regular season playing TCU and Rice. Houston will be the host team in the Cotton Bowl if the Cougars win their final two games and Texas, 7-1, losses to eitherTCU, Baylor or Texas A&M. If Arkansas, 8-1, beats A&M while Texas beats TCU Saturday, those two teams and Houston could still host the Cotton Bowl and confuse bowl committees about which Southwest Conference teams could go elsewhere. “The Southwest Conference sche dule stretches longer than most con ferences. That is a problem,” Yates said. “The championship race is still a scramble. That’s another problem.” He mentioned that a solution for the four possible SWC bowl teams — including 5-3 Baylor — would be an agreement between several bowls. He said the Cotton, Sun and Liberty bowls did it in 1975. Another solution would because “some of the invitations may be held up a week,” Yates said. His experience with bowl commit tees, however, told him that once the Orange Bowl lines up its teams “everyone else falls into place like dominoes. It’s hard for them to wait. ” He said the Sugar Bowl would not have a hard time finding an oppo nent for Georgia, which has a 5-4 record and which gets the host spot if it wins at Auburn Saturday. “Everybody wants to go to the Sugar Bowl,” he said. Hogs preparing for Ags ’Bama, Nebraska lead poll; Horns move up, Coogs drop United Press International NEW YORK — Alabama and Nebraska remained the nation’s top two college football teams and Ohio State eased up two notches to third Monday in UPI’s 10th weekly Board of Coaches ratings. Southern California, after a 24-17 victory over Washington that all but secured a Rose Bowl berth for the Trojans, dropped one rung into fourth. The powerful Buckeyes, under the guidance of Earle Bruce, scored a 34-7 victory Saturday over Iowa, forcing the Hawkeyes into 10 tur novers, and moved up to third. A win or a tie against once-beaten Michigan next week would give Ohio State a Big Ten title and a trip Top 20 to the Rose Bowl. “I would think our young men are willing and able to play four quarters of football versus the University of Michigan,” said Bruce. “I guess we re going to have to do that to be able to win.” Two new teams — Tennessee and Indiana — became members of the nation’s Top 20 for the first time this season. The No. 18 Vols whipped the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame 40-18 and the 19th-ranked Hoosiers regis tered a solid 45-14 triumph over Illi nois. The top-ranked Crimson Tide managed to maintain their status as the best team in the nation by strug gling to a 3-0 victory over deter mined Louisiana State. The second- ranked Cornhuskers, who have turned in listless performances in each of the past two weeks, got by Kansas State 21-12 to maintain their No. 2 ranking. Florida State, which registered a 27-7 victory over South Carolina, moved up one spot into fifth and Texas advanced two places into the sixth position with a 21-13 decision over Houston. Oklahoma remained seventh with a 38-0 victory over Kansas and Houston dropped four places into the eighth slot. Arkansas kept its No. 9 rating with a 29-20 verdict over Baylor and un beaten Brigham Young advanced one spot to No. 10 with a 31-17 triumph over Long Beach State. Rounding out the Top 20, in order, were Pittsburgh, Purdue, Michigan, Clemson, Washington, Temple, Wake Forest, Tennessee, Indiana and Baylor. United Press International FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Coach Lou Holtz, still talking about Arkan sas’ comeback win over Baylor, ran his Razorbacks through a light scrim mage Monday with several key play ers nursing injuries. Starting defensive backs Trent Bryant and Hugh Jernigan were withheld from the workout. Jernigan has a shoulder injury and Bryant a bruised thigh. Others who missed the practice were running back Roland Sales with a pulled groin, running back Gary Anderson with a muscle spasm in his neck, defensive lineman Alfred Mohammed with a calcium deposit in his right arm and Mike Massey with a slight knee injury. All of the injured should return to practice later in the week and play against Texas A&M in College Sta tion on Saturday. Despite the horde of small in juries, Holtz called the workout good. But his mind obviously still was on Arkansas’ 29-20 comeback win over the Bears. China Spring tires on way to 96-0 rou United Press International CHINA SPRING, Texas — The China Spring Cougars sure-fire way to score 96 points in a high school football game: get) the first half and 26 in the second. Last weekend the defending state champion Cougars Lorena 96-0 in a district battle — bettering the score from lastya record rout of 75-0. The Cougars had to punt only once during the game, and that in the second half. They did have three scoring opportunitieshaltelj fumbles, including one in the first quarter at the Lorena five-yard The Leopards were determined to get a passing game goingaj China Spring and threw the ball on the first three downs ofali every possession. On fourth down they punted. The first quarter, 12 minutes on the clock, took one hourtoplai took an hour and 45 minutes to play the first half, during whichLoii ran the ball three times, passed 16 times and punted six. China Spring used nine running hacks in the game — all they and emptied the bench during the first quarter. However, before fourth period was over some of the second-teamers were so tiredj had to be replaced with starters. The school is too small tohaveail string Tyler earns Juco Bowl bi “All of our players played well in the final quarter, which was ob vious,” Holtz said. “Baylor looks at the film and says ‘How could we lose that game?’ and I look at the first half and say, ‘How could we play that way’? United Press International KILGORE, Texas — Tyler Junior College has won the host spot in the Juco Bowl to be played Dec. 1 in Garland. The Apaches defeated the Kilgore Rangers 16-13 Saturday to win the Texas Junior College Football Con ference championship and the host berth in the Garland bowl. Tyler finished the season ference with a 7-3 record) of Blinn, Navarro and Hi County — all with 6-4 n Ranger College, a former member, remains undefr ranked No. 1 in the couni expected to meet Tyler in land bowl, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. “Overall, the silver lining was that I couldn’t believe the players com peted as well as they did,” he said. “We will have to play a great four quarters this week (against A&M).” A BRAZOS VALLEY INSTITUTION United Press International NEW YORK — The United Press International Board of Coaches top 20 college football ratings, with first- place votes and won-loss records in parentheses (tenth week): 1. Alabama (29) (9-0) 614 2. Nebraska (3) (9-0) 556 3. Ohio St. (5) (10-0) 536 4. Southern Cal (4) (9-0-1) 534 5. Florida St. (1) (9-0) 441 6. Texas (7-1) 394 7. Oklahoma (8-1) 391 8. Houston (8-1) 308 9. Arkansas (8-1) 304 10. Brigham Young (9-0) 243 11. Pittsburgh (8-1) 207 12. Purdue (8-2) 176 13. Michigan (8-2) 84 14. Clemson (7-2) 69 15. Washington (7-3) 51 16. Temple (8-1) 25 17. Wake Forest (8-2) 20 18. Tennessee (5-3) 17 19. Indiana (7-3) 16 20. Baylor (6-3) 15 Note: By agreement with the Amer ican Football Coaches Association, teams on probation by the NCAA are ineligible for the top 20 and national championship consideration by the UPI Board of Coaches. Those teams currently on probation are Oklaho ma State, Auburn and Memphis State. OF ’80 Interested in submitting aj picture to be used in our< class History during Senion Weekend? If so, put it in an envelope- with your name and phone- number. Then put it in our- class box in Rm. 216 MSC. Your Friends at “Northside Exxon” are having a SUPER SPECIAL. 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